This is a Planet pathfinder for fifth grade. Click on the link below the underlined title to go to the sites. Don't forget to search online encyclopedias, the Ebsco Database and United Streaming!
United Streaming must be done by one person at a time. Please download clips afterschool or ask Mrs. Bosch to save it for you! Welcome to the Planets __http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/welcome.htm__ An outstanding collection of NASA space images, with images of all of the planets and many smaller bodies as well. Click on an image to read an explanation of it. Enchanted Learning: The Planets __http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/__ This survey of the nine planets includes all the basics, size, mass, atmosphere, length of day, and the like. It features interactive activities and learning exercises and compares all of the planets in colorful tables. American Museum of Natural History: OLogy: Planetary Mysteries __http://www.amnh.org/ology/features/planetology/__ Explore a series of mysteries about the solar system--such as how Saturn got its spectacular rings--and then take quizzes to test your understanding. NASA: Planets __http://nasascience.nasa.gov/planetary-science__ __http://nasascience.nasa.gov/kids/kids-solar-system__(Kids….click here!) This impressive compilation of ideas is a great source for space science. Loaded with extra links for further information on the solar system. KidsCom: Planetarium __http://www.kidscom.com/adventure/iplanet/iplanetarium.html__ Explore the nine planets in our solar system in this animated planetarium. Click on a planet and find out all kinds of cool facts. Stories from Space: The First Annual Planet Awards! __http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_kids/sto ... space/PlanetAward/__ Great story to read when learning about the planets in our solar system. This story is an awards program that requires the planets to tell about themselves and what makes them unique. Planetary Data Pages: Our Solar System __http://jove.geol.niu.edu/faculty/stoddard/planet_f ... s/planetfacts.html__ Doing a report on one the nine planets in our solar system? Just click on the planet of your choice and get basic information, such as mass, temperature, and atmospheric components. NASM: Exploring the Planets: Discovery __http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/ceps/etp/discovery/etpdiscovery.html__ Part of the National Air and Space Museum's online Exploring the Planets website, this gives the history of the discovery and study of space starting with the Greeks and Romans through to the early 1900's. National Air and Space Museum: Exploring the Planets: Cyber-Center __http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/ceps/siimages/sii.html__ The National Air and Space Museum provides a center for activities for students and lesson plans for the teacher that has to do with exploring the planets. The "Best of the Solar System," introduces students to planetary research. Students analyze images from space, then compare them to the researchers finding, synthesize the two and draw conclusions from their results. Play! Scholastic: Planet Pop-Up __http://www.scholastic.com/play/prePlanet.htm__ Do you know where the planets are located? As the planet's name pops up, click on it quickly before time runs out. Features interesting facts on each planet. Planet Science: Planet 10 __http://www.planet-science.com/randomise/index.html?page=/planet10/__ Explore the Solar System--the planets, comets, and asteroids--a an interactive virtual simulation. Use controls to zoom in close on a particular planet, and record your discoveries on the pdf data sheets provided.
The Eight Planets: Just for Kids __http://kids.nineplanets.org/__ Here is a clear, simple picture of the solar system. Click on the names of the planets to learn more about each. Clicking on underlined terms takes you to more and more detailed scientific information.
NASA: Mars: The Red Planet (Level 1) __http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/sola ... m_level1/mars.html__ Get to know your next door neighbor in space. An introduction to Mars, the Red Planet. Vocabulary words linked to glossary of terms. Printable version available. NASA: Mercury: Planet Profile http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/special/mercury.htm This page from NASA provides a chart of statistical information on planet Mercury. Its mass, diameter, average temperature, and distance from the Sun are among the characteristics listed.
National Geographic: Photo Gallery: Neptune http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/phot ... ptune-gallery.html This seven image photo gallery from National Geographic takes us on a visual exploration of the planet Neptune.
National Geographic: Photo Gallery: Venus http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/photos/venus.html This seven image photo gallery from National Geographic takes us on a visual exploration of the planet Venus. Cool Cosmos: Ask an Astronomer for Kids! Solar System http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_kids/AskKids/ssys.shtml At this site you can examine the solar system through a list of most frequently asked questions. Click on each question and be transported to a wealth of knowledge about our solar system and the planets within it.
The Astronomy Cafe http://www.astronomycafe.net/ NASA scientist Sten Odenwald calls this his "web site for the astronomically disadvantaged." Do you have lots of questions about space that you can't seem to get answers to? Would you like to learn about a career in astronomy, Big Bang cosmology, and many other in astronomy? If so, this is the place to get the answers.
This is a Planet pathfinder for fifth grade. Click on the link below the underlined title to go to the sites. Don't forget to search online encyclopedias, the Ebsco Database and United Streaming!
United Streaming must be done by one person at a time. Please download clips afterschool or ask Mrs. Bosch to save it for you!Welcome to the Planets
__http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/welcome.htm__
An outstanding collection of NASA space images, with images of all of the planets and many smaller bodies as well. Click on an image to read an explanation of it.
Enchanted Learning: The Planets
__http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/__
This survey of the nine planets includes all the basics, size, mass, atmosphere, length of day, and the like. It features interactive activities and learning exercises and compares all of the planets in colorful tables.
American Museum of Natural History: OLogy: Planetary Mysteries
__http://www.amnh.org/ology/features/planetology/__
Explore a series of mysteries about the solar system--such as how Saturn got its spectacular rings--and then take quizzes to test your understanding.
NASA: Planets
__http://nasascience.nasa.gov/planetary-science__
__http://nasascience.nasa.gov/kids/kids-solar-system__ (Kids….click here!)
This impressive compilation of ideas is a great source for space science. Loaded with extra links for further information on the solar system.
KidsCom: Planetarium
__http://www.kidscom.com/adventure/iplanet/iplanetarium.html__
Explore the nine planets in our solar system in this animated planetarium. Click on a planet and find out all kinds of cool facts.
Stories from Space: The First Annual Planet Awards!
__http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_kids/sto ... space/PlanetAward/__
Great story to read when learning about the planets in our solar system. This story is an awards program that requires the planets to tell about themselves and what makes them unique.
Planetary Data Pages: Our Solar System
__http://jove.geol.niu.edu/faculty/stoddard/planet_f ... s/planetfacts.html__
Doing a report on one the nine planets in our solar system? Just click on the planet of your choice and get basic information, such as mass, temperature, and atmospheric components.
NASM: Exploring the Planets: Discovery
__http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/ceps/etp/discovery/etpdiscovery.html__
Part of the National Air and Space Museum's online Exploring the Planets website, this gives the history of the discovery and study of space starting with the Greeks and Romans through to the early 1900's.
National Air and Space Museum: Exploring the Planets: Cyber-Center
__http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/ceps/siimages/sii.html__
The National Air and Space Museum provides a center for activities for students and lesson plans for the teacher that has to do with exploring the planets. The "Best of the Solar System," introduces students to planetary research. Students analyze images from space, then compare them to the researchers finding, synthesize the two and draw conclusions from their results.
Play! Scholastic: Planet Pop-Up
__http://www.scholastic.com/play/prePlanet.htm__
Do you know where the planets are located? As the planet's name pops up, click on it quickly before time runs out. Features interesting facts on each planet.
Planet Science: Planet 10
__http://www.planet-science.com/randomise/index.html?page=/planet10/__
Explore the Solar System--the planets, comets, and asteroids--a an interactive virtual simulation. Use controls to zoom in close on a particular planet, and record your discoveries on the pdf data sheets provided.
The Eight Planets: Just for Kids
__http://kids.nineplanets.org/__
Here is a clear, simple picture of the solar system. Click on the names of the planets to learn more about each. Clicking on underlined terms takes you to more and more detailed scientific information.
NASA: Mars: The Red Planet (Level 1)
__http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/sola ... m_level1/mars.html__
Get to know your next door neighbor in space. An introduction to Mars, the Red Planet. Vocabulary words linked to glossary of terms. Printable version available.
NASA: Mercury: Planet Profile
http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/special/mercury.htm
This page from NASA provides a chart of statistical information on planet Mercury. Its mass, diameter, average temperature, and distance from the Sun are among the characteristics listed.
National Geographic: Photo Gallery: Saturn
http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/photos/saturn.html
This eleven image photo gallery from National Geographic takes us on a visual exploration of the planet Saturn.
National Geographic: Photo Gallery: Neptune
http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/phot ... ptune-gallery.html
This seven image photo gallery from National Geographic takes us on a visual exploration of the planet Neptune.
National Geographic: Photo Gallery: Jupiter
http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/photos/jupiter.html
This eleven image photo gallery from National Geographic takes us on a visual exploration of the planet Jupiter.
National Geographic: Photo Gallery: Venus
http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/photos/venus.html
This seven image photo gallery from National Geographic takes us on a visual exploration of the planet Venus.
Cool Cosmos: Ask an Astronomer for Kids! Solar System
http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_kids/AskKids/ssys.shtml
At this site you can examine the solar system through a list of most frequently asked questions. Click on each question and be transported to a wealth of knowledge about our solar system and the planets within it.
The Astronomy Cafe
http://www.astronomycafe.net/
NASA scientist Sten Odenwald calls this his "web site for the astronomically disadvantaged." Do you have lots of questions about space that you can't seem to get answers to? Would you like to learn about a career in astronomy, Big Bang cosmology, and many other in astronomy? If so, this is the place to get the answers.
Teacher Sites
Teachers' Domain: What Is a Planet?
http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/hew06.sci.ess.eiu.planetdefine/
This video segment, adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, presents the ongoing debate over the definition of a planet, including the status of Pluto.
NGfL: Planets
http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/planets_moons_dk_ ... uction/default.htm
Learn about the moon and the planets through interactive online learning exercises.
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